NBC, Discovery end Saturday morning block

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Discovery, NBC Terminate Kids-Show Partnership
By Anne Becker

Discovery and NBC are disbanding their partnership to program the
Saturday-morning Discovery Kids on NBC programming block. Beginning in
the fall, the Discovery-programmed-and-produced block of shows will no
longer run on NBC. Instead, they will run solely on the Discovery Kids
channel, which is in 43 million homes.

The two companies had been under a four-year agreement for NBC to run
the Discovery kids shows, and both decided not to renew it when it
came up, according to a Discovery spokesperson who characterized the
decision as “completely mutual” and “based on the needs and
priorities” of both parties.

Discovery, she said, will devote the resources previously spent on the
block to programming Discovery Kids. No word yet on what NBC plans to
run on Saturday mornings in the fall.

Jax...

Well, considering that they went with Discovery to save costs (and to
screw Ian out of his T-NBC fix :D ), they'll probably just hand the
entire morning over to the Today show...

...although I'm sorta holding out for them putting BSG and Doctor Who
there :)